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Review: Obsidian Mirror by Catherine Fisher

Jake's father disappears
while working on mysterious experiments with the obsessive, reclusive
Oberon Venn. Jake is convinced Venn has murdered him. But the truth he
finds at the snow-bound Wintercombe Abbey is far stranger ... The
experiments concerned a black mirror, which is a portal to both the past
and the future. Venn is not alone in wanting to use its powers.
Strangers begin gathering in and around Venn's estate: Sarah - a
runaway, who appears out of nowhere and is clearly not what she says,
Maskelyne - who claims the mirror was stolen from him in some past
century. There are others, a product of the mirror's power to twist
time. And a tribe of elemental beings surround this isolated estate,
fey, cold, untrustworthy, and filled with hate for humans. But of them
all, Jake is hell-bent on using the mirror to get to the truth. Whatever
the cost, he must learn what really happened to his father.

***

Obsidian mirror is
an really interesting read and one of those books I want to reread
again soon as I think I'll get as much, if not more, from a second
reading.

The book itself is written in such an unusual way. It
switches between protagonist and between past and present alongside
extracts from documents from the world in which it is set and as a
reader I felt very much like I was piecing together a jigsaw puzzle as I
went along working out little by little how everything fit together.

The
story is set around the disappearance of Jake's father and follows his
story as he moves in with his godfather who he suspects is to blame for
his father's disappearance. Once he arrives at the abbey his godfather
owns he finds himself drawn into a weird world of experiments with a
strange mirror in a bid to locate his father.

I must admit
towards the end of the book I was thinking that I wasn't sure if I
wanted to worry about carrying on with the series. While I was enjoying
the book I didn't know if there was enough for me to want to carry on
especially after a year or more will have passed by the time I would be
able to get a copy. However my mind was completely changed with the last
chapter and the revelations that came with it that left me needing more